Waiting for the Dawn: Mircea Eliade in Perspective
edited by Davíd Carrasco and Jane M. Law by D Carrasco
University Press of Colorado, 1991 Paper: 978-0-87081-239-2 Library of Congress Classification BL43.E4W34 1991 Dewey Decimal Classification 291.092
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
First published in 1991, Waiting for the Dawn is the result of a year-long interdisciplinary study of Mircea Eliade’s scholarly, literary, and autobiographical works which took place at the University of Colorado in 1982. With a preface by Davíd Carrasco that takes into account recent developments in Eliade scholarship, this important work is back in print after renewed interest in Eliade thanks to Francis Ford Coppola’s screen adaptation Youth without Youth (2007).
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Davíd Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, founded at the University of Colorado. Jane Marie Law is an associate professor of Japanese Religions at Cornell University.
REVIEWS
Waiting for the Dawn is an authentic portrait of how Eliade wanted to be known and seen in America: as a teacher close to colleagues and students, listening and discussing—engaged—Waiting for the Dawn." —Charles H. Long
"Readers will discover his literary side and the fascinating entanglements of his academic and literary imaginations . . . no book about Eliade is more adept in showing the tensions between those two phases of his work." —Lindsay Jones
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Kitagawa,
Joseph Mitsuo
Prologue:
Promise and the Labyrinth
Carrasco,
Davíd
Introduction: Other Eliades
Carrasco,
Davíd
Law,
Jane Marie
Part One
The Grand Oscillation: Selections from the Oeuvre of Mircea Eliade
Waiting for the Dawn
Literary Imagination and Religious Structure
Sambo
From Silkworms to Alchemy
A New Humanism
Sky, Moon, and Egg
Vocation and Destiny: Savant, Not Saint
Literature and Fantasy
A Terrific Illusionist: The Best!
The Terror of History
The Criterion Group: From Freud to Charlie Chaplin
Part Two
Encounter and Reflection: Essays by Seminar Participants
Sacred Space, Historicity, and Mircea Eliade
Pois,
Robert A.
Forbidden Forest: Eliade as Artist and Shaman
Nolan,
Edward P.
Mircea Eliade: The Self and the Journey
Taylor,
Rodney L.
Part Three
Souvenirs
Mircea Eliade and the “Duration of Life”: An Abundance of Souvenirs
Carrasco,
Davíd
Renewed Reflections
Law,
Jane Marie
Introduction to “In the Shadow of a Lily”
Ricketts,
Mac Linscott
In the Shadow of a Lily
Eliade,
Mircea
About the Contributors
About the Book and Editors
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Waiting for the Dawn: Mircea Eliade in Perspective
edited by Davíd Carrasco and Jane M. Law by D Carrasco
University Press of Colorado, 1991 Paper: 978-0-87081-239-2
First published in 1991, Waiting for the Dawn is the result of a year-long interdisciplinary study of Mircea Eliade’s scholarly, literary, and autobiographical works which took place at the University of Colorado in 1982. With a preface by Davíd Carrasco that takes into account recent developments in Eliade scholarship, this important work is back in print after renewed interest in Eliade thanks to Francis Ford Coppola’s screen adaptation Youth without Youth (2007).
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Davíd Carrasco is the Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He is director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project, founded at the University of Colorado. Jane Marie Law is an associate professor of Japanese Religions at Cornell University.
REVIEWS
Waiting for the Dawn is an authentic portrait of how Eliade wanted to be known and seen in America: as a teacher close to colleagues and students, listening and discussing—engaged—Waiting for the Dawn." —Charles H. Long
"Readers will discover his literary side and the fascinating entanglements of his academic and literary imaginations . . . no book about Eliade is more adept in showing the tensions between those two phases of his work." —Lindsay Jones
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Kitagawa,
Joseph Mitsuo
Prologue:
Promise and the Labyrinth
Carrasco,
Davíd
Introduction: Other Eliades
Carrasco,
Davíd
Law,
Jane Marie
Part One
The Grand Oscillation: Selections from the Oeuvre of Mircea Eliade
Waiting for the Dawn
Literary Imagination and Religious Structure
Sambo
From Silkworms to Alchemy
A New Humanism
Sky, Moon, and Egg
Vocation and Destiny: Savant, Not Saint
Literature and Fantasy
A Terrific Illusionist: The Best!
The Terror of History
The Criterion Group: From Freud to Charlie Chaplin
Part Two
Encounter and Reflection: Essays by Seminar Participants
Sacred Space, Historicity, and Mircea Eliade
Pois,
Robert A.
Forbidden Forest: Eliade as Artist and Shaman
Nolan,
Edward P.
Mircea Eliade: The Self and the Journey
Taylor,
Rodney L.
Part Three
Souvenirs
Mircea Eliade and the “Duration of Life”: An Abundance of Souvenirs
Carrasco,
Davíd
Renewed Reflections
Law,
Jane Marie
Introduction to “In the Shadow of a Lily”
Ricketts,
Mac Linscott
In the Shadow of a Lily
Eliade,
Mircea
About the Contributors
About the Book and Editors
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